The War on Drugs - How to Win it ( Archived) (186)

trish123: Makes you wonder for who's benefit the laws are made doesnt it at times

Galactic_bodhi: Cui bono? Cui bono?

Follow the money. The answer is always who makes the money. The answer is always, who runs the kleptocracy.

ooby_dooby: Step 1, Stop thinking of it as a war.

Step 2, Formulate a plan which will bring to an end the viscious cycle of addiction by removing the profit from marketing drugs.
A top secret plan should be instituted which for a certain amount of time, say 2 years, all drugs siezed by law enforcement be stockpiled in a secure location where it can be tested and certified safe. This to include marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc. This material to be used in the treatment process later. It makes no sense to destroy something that can be a valueable commodity, in fact, it seems fitting that the expenses and efforts of drug cartels and smugglers and poppy growers in Afghanistan be used to destroy their very own business. Later on we should buy the entire poppy crop as well as the coca crop directly from the growers in Columbia and process it right here in the US.

Step 3, Make these drugs available by prescription to anybody who is addicted to drugs after a physical exam and commitment to counciling and drug rehab therapy and substitution to less addictive drugs in a multistep process.

Step 4, De-criminalize the possession & use of drugs which would go a long way to remove the stigma associated with being addicted to drugs.

This would remove the main source of revenue from the Mexican drug cartels and stop all the killing from their drug wars and also remove the funds from funding the Taliban and Al Quida. This would also stop young people starting using drugs in the first place because the monetary incentive would be gone as well as the glamor. If that's not enough, 10,000's of able bodied convicts could be released from prisons who are bloating the system and costing tax payers a fortune. Maybe not all at once but gradually as their cases are reviewed.
This is a serious thread so please no jokes or flirting. Thank you.

ooby_dooby: Step 1, Stop thinking of it as a war.

Step 2, Formulate a plan which will bring to an end the viscious cycle of addiction by removing the profit from marketing drugs.
A top secret plan should be instituted which for a certain amount of time, say 2 years, all drugs siezed by law enforcement be stockpiled in a secure location where it can be tested and certified safe. This to include marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc. This material to be used in the treatment process later. It makes no sense to destroy something that can be a valueable commodity, in fact, it seems fitting that the expenses and efforts of drug cartels and smugglers and poppy growers in Afghanistan be used to destroy their very own business. Later on we should buy the entire poppy crop as well as the coca crop directly from the growers in Columbia and process it right here in the US.

Step 3, Make these drugs available by prescription to anybody who is addicted to drugs after a physical exam and commitment to counciling and drug rehab therapy and substitution to less addictive drugs in a multistep process.

Step 4, De-criminalize the possession & use of drugs which would go a long way to remove the stigma associated with being addicted to drugs.

This would remove the main source of revenue from the Mexican drug cartels and stop all the killing from their drug wars and also remove the funds from funding the Taliban and Al Quida. This would also stop young people starting using drugs in the first place because the monetary incentive would be gone as well as the glamor. If that's not enough, 10,000's of able bodied convicts could be released from prisons who are bloating the system and costing tax payers a fortune. Maybe not all at once but gradually as their cases are reviewed.
This is a serious thread so please no jokes or flirting. Thank you.

woohoo128: will you could always send them to me and I will destroy them honestly

ooby_dooby: There is a societal difference between alcohol and cigarettes vs cocaine and heroin at the present time. It's a double standard which has its roots not in scientific fact but in politics. I agree, there's little difference in the damage done by alcohol vs snorting cocaine or mainlining heroin. The big difference is there is no huge black market in alcohol or tobacco products sustaining drug trafficers with Billions of dollars. Anybody over 21 can walk into a store and buy booze and cigs You don't need a prescription.

One of the differences I proposed was making drugs readily available to addicts by prescription with certain strings attached. The physical exam should include a hair folicle test to certify they are in fact a long term drug user.

The present situation is like the tax code. It has been made excedingly complicated over decades by politicians lawyers and bureaucrats. Is there something wrong with a simple solution?

There's a line in my profile that says one of my talents is finding "simple solutions to complex problems" and I have had this ability all my life. If you strip away all the fluff and the noise and the distractions and the emotion and crap and focus on the elemental parts, there is no problem that can't be solved.

toxicaura: trouble with your theory of letting the dopers stay doped up legally by prescription is they become addicted (if they are not already) no job, too lazy or stoned to work, no insurance, no money, but having a flashlight and a burglars mask finds their money to support their habit, or are their legal prescriptions going to be subsidized by state or federal monies to keep the innocent safe and not adding to the burden the local police and drug agencies already have...